Mr. Zhang Qingsheng Facing Trial; His Wife Tortured to Death (Photo)

Name: Zhang Qingsheng (张庆生)
Gender: Male
Age: 56
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Former engineer of the Harbin Thermal Power Company
Date of Most Recent Arrest: October 18, 2011
Most Recent Place of Detention: Harbin No. 1 Detention Center (哈尔滨市第一看守所 )
City: Harbin
Province: Heilongjiang
Persecution Suffered: detention, illegal sentencing, imprisonment, home ransacked

(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Zhang Qingsheng, Ms. Yang Xiuying, and Ms. Wen Shufan have been illegally detained for over a year. The Hulan District Court in Harbin City planned to put them on trial on December 28, 2012.

The three practitioners were previously tried by the Hulan District Court on July 31, 2012. During that trial, Mr. Zhang's lawyer pointed out that this court had no jurisdiction over his case, as Mr. Zhang resided in Songbei District and had been arrested by officers from the Songbei Police Department. The case was thus adjourned.

In early December 2012, however, the district court notified Mr. Zhang's lawyer that Harbin City Intermediate Court had given it the jurisdiction to try all three practitioners. The court also informed the lawyer that the Hulan District Procuratorate had filed additional charges against Mr. Zhang, saying that Mr. Zhang had confessed to other crimes. The addition of these charges is in clear violation of the existing Chinese laws and regulations.

Mr. Zhang and his daughter, Ms. Zhang Hui, were arrested near their home by officers from the Leye Police Station and Domestic Security Division of the Songbei District Police Department on October 18, 2011. Ms. Zhang was released on November 17, 2011, but Mr. Zhang is still incarcerated at the Harbin No. 1 Detention Center.

Fabricated Evidence

The so-called “criminal evidence” presented in Ms. Zhang's case included Falun Gong informational materials, books, a computer, and other personal belongings confiscated by police when they ransacked Mr. Zhang's home on January 14, 2004, after arresting his wife, Ms. Sun Yuhua.

However, Mr. Zhang was not home at the time of his wife's arrest; he had been arrested on November 18, 2003, for distributing informational materials about Falun Gong and was still incarcerated in the Hulan District Detention Center at the time.

Ms. Sun was tortured to death and passed away on March 8, 2004.

 
Mr. Zhang's wife, Ms. Sun Yuhua, was tortured to death for practicing Falun Gong.

Mr. Zhang was sentenced to three years in prison by the Hulan District Court in early 2004 and subsequently transferred to Hulan Prison. To prevent him from investigating his wife's death, Hulan Domestic Security Division colluded with court officials to hold another hearing in Hulan Prison around May 2004, sentencing Mr. Zhang to eight more years in prison. Mr. Zhang appealed to the Harbin Intermediate Court, which overruled the eight-year sentence.

Mr. Zhang was released on November 18, 2006, but detained again in 2011.

Parties involved in the persecution of Mr. Zhang:
Songbei District Domestic Security Division: [phone], [phone]
Wei Debin, chief judge of the Hulan District Court: [phone]
Harbin No. 1 Detention Center: [phone]
Hulan District Procuratorate: [phone]